VIDEO: Ike Showed America in 1954 How to Deal With Illegals… Now Trump Is Going to Do It Again

In a heated exchange with Ohio Gov. John Kasich during last night’s GOP debate in Milwaukee, Donald Trump expressed support for former president Dwight Eisenhower’s 1954 initiative to deport illegal immigrants and promised to do the same were he elected.

“Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president, people liked him. I like Ike, right, the expression — I like Ike?” Trump said.

Moved a-million-and-a-half illegal immigrants out of this country. Moved them just beyond the border, they came back. Moved them again, beyond the border, they came back. Didn’t like it. Moved them way south. They never came back,” Trump said to laughter from the audience.

“Dwight Eisenhower — you don’t get nicer, you don’t get friendlier, they moved a-million-and-a-half people out. We have no choice.”

Trump’s comments on Eisenhower came after an exchange with Gov. Kasich, in the Ohio governor said that Trump’s plan to deport illegal aliens was “a silly argument.”

“In 1986, Ronald Reagan basically said the people who were here, if they were law-abiding could stay,” Kasich said. “But, what didn’t happen we didn’t build a wall effectively and we didn’t control the border. We need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

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“But if people think that we are going to ship 11 million people who are law-abiding … Come on, folks. We all know you can’t pick them up and ship them across, back across the border,” Kasich said. “It is not an adult argument. It makes no sense.”

Trump, however, insisted that his plan was not only workable, but necessary.

“You’re going to have to send people out,” Trump said. “Look, we’re a country of laws. We either have a country or we don’t have a country … we have no choice if we’re going to run our country properly and we’re going to be a country.”